Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wanna be," she wails. "A walking study/ In demonology." Certain images repeat: angels, stars, heaven. "I'm a cancer," Love explains. "I recycle." Death is on her mind. A number of songs mourn the failing spirit of alternative rock. She sings, "Oh the boys on the radio/ They crash and burn." Other songs are haunted by the 1994 suicide of her husband, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain. Love sings on Reasons to Be Beautiful, "When the fire goes out, you better learn to fake...
...technology that allows it to be steered during an emergency by alternating thrust on the two underwing engines even if the center engine in the tail explodes and severs all hydraulic control lines for the rudders and elevators--as in the case of a DC-10 that crash-landed in an Iowa cornfield in 1989. The Swissair MD-11 successfully underwent a thorough inspection just over a year ago, and Swissair's safety-and-maintenance record is solid. But did this model have a history of wiring problems? Since 1992, the FAA has issued a number of airworthiness directives expressing...
...airplane always telegraphs its intention to crash years before it actually does. If I'm right, this one did too," says Arthur Wolk, an aviation attorney who represents plaintiffs in airline crashes. "There have been fleetwide problems in wiring. If I were an investigator, I'd be looking for fire in the wiring bundle, which spread to the cockpit or to a critical flight control." Such speculation is perhaps inspired by the conclusion of the investigation into the crash of TWA 800 near Long Island on July 17, 1996. That disaster's likely cause: exhaust heat from the Boeing...
...riding so long with the breeze at your back and the sun on your face, a return to the vagaries of normal weather can feel downright depressing. And make no mistake, that's what we're experiencing right now in the stock market: a return to normality, not a "crash" or disaster. But after eight fat years, we've returned to a world where stocks go down as well as up, where our engagement in the global economy brings risks as well as rewards. We're leaving behind the fantasy world where stock prices bear little or no relation...
DIED. JONATHAN MANN, 51, aids and human-rights activist who in 1986 founded the World Health Organization's program to fight AIDS; aboard Swissair Flight 111. His wife, MARY LOU CLEMENTS-MANN, 51, an AIDS vaccine expert, also died in the crash...